false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890421m/18230.jpg 18230 7 <I>"In my everyday life over the last fifty years, it has been my curious lot to move among the rich and famous and powerful, always as an outsider, always listening, watching, remembering."</I><p> Writing about the crimes of the rich and famous for <I>Vanity Fair</I> with this insider's status, Dominick Dunne has borne witness to the often bizarre personalities who surround high-profile cases and their telling intimacies. Andrea Reynolds, for instance, dressed only in a negligee and jewelry, insists that her jewels are finer than those of the comatose woman in whose apartment she resides and whom her lover, Claus von Bulow, is charged with attempting to murder. The essays in <I>Justice</I> offer a fascinating, disturbing, and wry look at the cast of a half dozen high-profile trials, including Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered their affluent parents; Marvin Pancoast, who beat the $18,000-a-month mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale to death with a baseball bat; the multibillionaire banker Edmund Safra, who suffocated in his own bunker-like bathroom in Monaco; and the gossiping members of Los Angeles society during "All O.J., All the Time." <p> The most moving story by far is the title piece, about the murder of Dunne's daughter, the actress Dominique Dunne, by her ex-boyfriend, who walked away with a pitifully light sentence thanks to the extremes taken by his defense lawyer and the vanity of the judge. While the succeeding stories don't have the same poignancy, Dunne still makes them personal--after all, he knows many of those involved, and justice truly is personal for him. In fact, it is this moral authority that enables him to enter the strange universe of high-society crime and write about it with no pretense of objectivity, but rather with rage toward the short shrift justice is so often given in celebrity cases. The counterpoint to his anger is a delicious irony in the form of fascinating subplots, jet-set gossip, and terrific quotes straight from some of the horses' mouths. Dunne has both a sharp sense of the absurd and a trenchant eye for injustice in any form. <I>--Lesley Reed</I> 19687 2001 Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments total:158|5:29|4:61|3:53|2:13|1:2| 158 576 218 20 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 22:44:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 23:17:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Aug 16 13:03:21 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 14 10:56:08 -0800 2007
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